Creative Strategist

Purpose of the Job

We are looking for a Creative Strategist who is able to interpret our client’s business requirements and translate them into intelligent and effective creative solutions. You will develop holistic creative strategic concepts across multiple marketing channels, often working to tight deadlines. The Creative Strategist will work in partnership with the Design Team Lead, providing coherent creative direction, and will support the client in pitching creative concepts to internal stakeholders, as well as communicating ideas and creating concepts for other team members.

• Distill abstract business concepts and client needs into refined, intelligent creative solutions.
• Take responsibility for the creative vision and for ensuring this vision is clearly communicated to the design teams in order to ensure the standard of output.
• Pitch ideas confidently and present their creative vision clearly to internal stakeholders, as well as communicate in the same manner to members of the creative team.
• Have strong supervisory, people management, and leadership skills in order to lead and inspire, hire, develop, and oversee their creative team.
• Ensure that all of the organization’s or client’s creative output/visuals are consistent with the overall brand
• Lead multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.

• A fine arts degree (preferred) or an undergraduate degree in graphic design, visual communication, typography, or a related subject, or equivalent professional experience.
• 6 - 8 years of creative direction experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience creatively directing complex solutions for digital products.
• A strong background in compelling, results-driven copywriting across various marketing channels.
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and determine a creative vision that matches client briefs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to clearly and effectively communicate the creative vision, concepts, ideas, and solutions to stakeholders, internal teams, and clients.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting, including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
• Extensive supervisory experience (including leadership, team-building, and delegation) leading and managing a creative team.
• A solid grasp of art history, design history, photography and the visual arts, pop culture, and counterculture; fluency in current technology, politics, a deep understanding of the zeitgeist of social tastes and current affairs.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism
• For New York applicants:
  The salary range for this position is $140,000 to $170,000 annually. Actual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors that are unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, certifications and work location. This range may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
• The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus targets, benefits and/or other applicable incentives.
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Your application will be reviewed by a member of our Recruiting Team and we'll reach out to you directly if there's a fit for the position. We're using video conferencing software to conduct many of our interviews, but all interviews will be live with a member of our Recruiting or Hiring teams.